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GEOL 1010 EXAM 1 SPR24
GEOL 1010 EXAM 1 SPR24
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1
Rocks coming together to form bigger and bigger masses of rocks.
Fusion
Solar Disk Model
None of the above
Protostar
2
The smallest particles of matter are known as what?
Atoms
Pebbles
Minerals
Elements
3
What makes magma more viscous?
Increase in temperature
Increase in silica
Increase of iron
Decrease in gas
4
Properties of a mineral
unfixed chemical composition
organic
synthetic
solid
5
Cleavage is
uneven break
Depended on how you break it
Has no angles
reflects from parallel planes
6
what kind of a plate boundary is this
convergent
divergent
transform
subduction zone
7
When a mineral has cleavage, what causes breakage to occur in a certain way?
The force with which it is broken
What type of instrument is used
All of the above
stronger bonds in the crystal structure
8
Which one does
NOT
describe a P-wave?
Compressed then released
Parallel to direction of force
Faster
Only in solids
9
Minerals are?
Inorganic
Typically two or more
Naturally occurring
Solid
10
shorter volcanoes made mostly of pyroclasts
none of the above
cinder cone
1 and 2
tephra cone
11
bubble formation
Plutonic
Pyroclastic
Vesicular
Intrusive
12
Who developed the theory of continental drift?
Friedrich mohs
alfred wegener
harry hess
charles richter
13
How did the moon form?
the moon was captured by the gravitational pull of the earth
the solar winds blew together asteroids taht grew together into the moon
p-earth collided with planet, flung molten rock around earth and into moon
planetesimal pulled by earths gravitational pull and began 2 orbit earth
14
Which of the following was not a part of wegeners evidence for continental drift?
identical fossils on opposite side of the oceans
seafloor spreading
paleoclimates
matching rocks and structures on opposite sides of the ocean
15
Special Properties
magnetic
Glassy
labradoresence
reaction with acid
16
What property is the LEAST helpful for identifying a mineral?
Hardness
Color
Luster
Specific Gravity
17
Which of the following forces applies stress or pressure that is equal in all directions?
compressional stress
Heat
confining pressure
Life stress
18
Which of the following is an oceanic continental convergent plate boundary?
aleutian islands
san andreas fault
Alps
Andes mountains
19
Which one does
NOT
describe a P-wave?
Only in solids
Parallel to direction of force
Faster
Compressed then released
20
Minerals that are cooled at a slow rate usually have
Larger crystals
No crystals
Smaller crystals
21
The law of original horizontality states that . . .
layers of sediment are originally deposited horizantally.
older layers of rock are on the bottom.
layers of sediment are originally deposited vertically.
igneous intrusions are younger than most rocks.
22
How will minerals
grow
when a rock is put under normal stress?
parallel to the direction of the greatest stress
parallel to the direction of the shear stress
perpendicular to the direction of the greatest stress
perpendicular to the direction of the shear stress
23
Coarse-grained rocks
Porphyritic
Aphanitic
Banitc
Phaneritic
24
Water causes rock to melt at…?
higher temperatures
lower temperatures
the mantle
sea level
25
Light colored minerals are called
Felsic
Mafic
Intermediate
26
Holes in rocks
vesicles
Pyroclastic
Glassy
Magnetic
27
What is NOT a mineral?
Halite
Calcite
Hematite
Sandstone
28
Which of the following is NOT a component of texture?
Shape
Size
color
Arragement of interlocking minerals
29
What is a rock?
a country in the middle east
a music genre
an actor/WWE superstar
a solid aggregate of one or more minerals
30
The processes happening today are the exact same as those that happened in the past.
Uniformitarianism
Nebular
Actualism
Catastrophism
31
Which of the following layers of the earth is a liquid?
crust
mantle
inner core
outer core
32
Which of these is NOT a physical layer
outer core
crust
lithosphere
inner core
33
Process to turn sediments into stone
lithification
crystallization
polymerization
solidification
34
Igneous Rocks
Form outside volcanos
Form inside your house
Form inside volcanos
Form in pools
35
The three components of Magma are...
Liquid, Solid, Volatiles
Erosion, Color, Solid
River, Wind, Rain
Heat, Liquid, Color
36
High SIO2 in rocks makes the apprance
Light
Clear
Dark
Shiny
37
Luster(Nonmetallic)
Shiny
vitreous
metallic
Opaque
38
Rocks are?
Typically two or more
Comprised of minerals
Comprised of minerdals
one
39
Plate boundary where the plates are sliding past each other
Convergent
Trasform
Divergent
None of the above
40
Which of the following is a material that vaporizes to a gas at the atmospheric temperatures?
glass
grain
volatile
melt
41
True or False: Deposition drops the Sediment.
False
True
42
Which of the following statements regarding continental and oceanic crust is TRUE?
continental is thinner and denser than oceanic
Continental is thicker and less dense than oceanic
continental and oceanic have the same density
continental is thicker and denser than oceanic
43
Extrusive (Volcanic) rocks
Komatiite
Requires apples to form
Come from inside Volcanos
Come from outside Volcanocs
44
Which of the following forces applies stress or pressure that is equal in all directions?
confining pressure
Heat
compressional stress
Life stress
45
Which description best fits the word "lithification?"
weathering and erosion
cooling and crystallization
heat and pressure
compacting and cementation
46
Where is active seafloor spreading occurring today?
along the california coast
under hawaii
at subduction zones
at the east-pacific rise
47
A ______ forms when on plate is subducted under another plate.
trench
hotspot
ridge
lithosphere
48
What is a Fissure?
Crack in ground where Lava comes up
Transportation of Sediment.
Fishing Tool
49
What is the age of the earth?
4.6 million years
46 billion years
4.6 billion years
.46 billion years
50
Which type of metamorphism is found at a divergent plate boundary?
hydrothermal metamorphism
regional metamorphism
fault zone metamorphism
Separate metamorphism
51
Big crystals inside fine grained rock
Aquatic
Holes
Porphyritic
Aphanitic
52
Which of the four Earth's sphere's is all life on Earth
atmosphere
biosphere
hydrosphere
geosphere
53
In Covalent bonding the electrons are
atoms are free to roam between atoms
atoms give and take electrons
electrons disappear
atoms share electrons
54
Luster(Metallic)
Glassy
Shiny
Waxy
Dull
55
What word is an accurate description of a mineral's luster?
Purple
Metalic
Boring
Solid
56
Fine-grained rocks
Andesite
Aphanitic
Phaneritic
Pyroclastic
57
Aphanitic Texture includes ALL of the following EXCEPT...
May contain Vesicles (gas bubble holes)
Coarse- Grained
Rapid rate of cooling of Lava or Magma
Microscopic Crystals
58
lava in the state of cooling down, looks like rope
Aa
vesicles
lahar
pahoehoe
59
What is the law of horizontality
rock layers continue over large distances
rock layers are laid out however they want to
rock layers are laid down horizontally
rock layers are laid down vertically
60
a lot of large crystals
pegmatitic
aphanitic
porphyritic
phaneritic
61
What rocks are formed by cooling and crystallization?
Metamorphic
Ingenious
Sedimentary
Igneous
62
Which of these options is not one of the main components of magma
Melt [liquids]
Solids
Felsic
Volatiles [gases]
63
How will minerals
grow
when a rock is put under normal stress?
perpendicular to the direction of the greatest stress
parallel to the direction of the greatest stress
parallel to the direction of the shear stress
perpendicular to the direction of the shear stress
64
What are the two types of Weathering?
Hot, Cold
Physical, Chemical
Temperature, Physical
Earth, Land
65
What is Luster?
The way a mineral reflect light
How expensive a mineral is
All of the above
How a mineral breaks
66
What theory proposes the bodies in our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud?
Rotating Cloud Theory
The Nebular Theory
Solar Nebula
The Big Bang Theory
67
Which type of metamorphism is found at a divergent plate boundary?
hydrothermal metamorphism
fault zone metamorphism
Separate metamorphism
regional metamorphism
68
Plates slide past each other at
transform plate boundaries
divergent plate boundaries
hot spots
convergent plate boundaries
69
Which on does
NOT
describe an S-wave?
Only in solids
Slower
Parallel to direction of force
Curving motion
70
Identify the picture
Obsidian
Peridotite
Biotite
Cat
71
Cooled very quickly
Black
Glassy
Extremely Felsic
Shows conchoidal fracture
72
The sun and the rest of the solar system formed about 5 billion years ago from a huge cloud of dust and gas called a __.
proto planet
proto sun
accretionary disk
nebula
73
single tetrahedrons
framework silicate
sheet silicate
sheet silicate
island silicate
74
What is viscosity?
how many rock layers there are
how thick a lava flow is
how much food you eat
how many atoms bond together
75
Which of the following layers of the earth is composed of silicon and aluminum?
outer core
inner core
crust
asthenospher
76
High MG and FE
light
Ultramafic
Dark
mafic
77
Whish mineral could you scratch with your fingernail (Hardness <2)?
Olivine
Garnet
Quartz
Talc
78
Materials with low viscosity
Flow slowly
DO not flow
Flow Easily
79
Which on does
NOT
describe an S-wave?
Parallel to direction of force
Slower
Curving motion
Only in solids
